Luke's English Podcast

English as a second language (esl)

English as a foreign language (efl)

PODCASTS

Podcasts are one of the most useful ways to improve your listening skills and comprehension.

Using your smartphone and a Podcast app such as Stitcher or Apple i-tunes can allow you to subscribe to a large number of ESL or EFL podcasts.  This will make listening to Egnlish for shrot periods of time much easier and contribute to developping a regular routine of English languag elistening.

Apart from podcasts aimed directly as students of English there are 100s of others in the English languge on almost any subject from art, history, or simply current events or daily news.

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Luke’s English Podcast

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Luke is a qualified English language teacher and stand-up comedian who provides an engaging and entertaining podcast series.  His intention is to “make you laugh while you learn” and he provides a rich mix of subject material. 

A quick look at the titles of some of the podcasts reveals such instalments as “Doctor Who Episode – Language Analysis”, “The Prawn Story” and “English Premier League Football”.

For many of the podcasts Luke is the sole narrator, although real-life conversations also feature.  He has a warm, engaging voice that draws in the listener.  What’s more his stories are so well structured that you are eager to hear the next sentence.  The English is spoken at normal speed and transcripts are available.